Dear Perlmonks,

I would like to sort a hash combining two criteria:

- first by the hash key's string length
- and then by the hash key value, decreasing

Here is the sample data:

hard drive => 26
hard unit => 12
hard disk drive => 15
hard disk drive uni => 21
hard disk drive unit => 11

I'm using the following function to sort a hash by its value decreasingly:
sub hashValueDescendingNum {
$count{$b} <=> $count{$a};
}

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But I fail combining the two above mentioned criteria.

The output should look like

hard disk drive unit => 11
hard disk drive uni => 21
hard disk drive => 15
hard drive => 26
hard unit => 12

Thank you for your help.
Larry

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